Empire's Wake : Postcolonial Irish Writing and the Politics of Modern Literary Form / Mark Quigley.
2012
PR8755 .Q54 2013
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Title
Empire's Wake : Postcolonial Irish Writing and the Politics of Modern Literary Form / Mark Quigley.
Author
Quigley, Mark, author.
ISBN
9780823245475
Published
New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2012]
Copyright
©2012
Language
English
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In English.
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1 online resource (264 p.)
Item Number
10.1515/9780823245475 doi
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PR8755 .Q54 2013
Dewey Decimal Classification
820.9/9415
Summary
Shedding new light on the rich intellectual and political milieux shaping the divergent legacies of Joyce and Yeats, Empire's Wake traces how a distinct postcolonial modernism emerged within Irish literature in the late 1920s to contest and extend key aspects of modernist thought and aesthetic innovation at the very moment that the high modernist literary canon was consolidating its influence and prestige.By framing its explorations of postcolonial narrative form against the backdrop of distinct historical moments from the Irish Free State to the Celtic Tiger era, the book charts the different phases of 20th-century postcoloniality in ways that clarify how the comparatively early emergence of the postcolonial in Ireland illuminates the formal shifts accompanying the transition from an age of empire to one of globalization.Bringing together new perspectives on Beckett and Joyce with analyses of the critically neglected works of Sean O'Faoláin, Frank McCourt, and the Blasket autobiographers, Empire's Wake challenges the notion of a singular "global modernism" and argues for the importance of critically integrating the local and the international dimensions of modernist aesthetics.
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Rerouting Irish Modernism: Postcolonial Aesthetics and the Imperative of Cosmopolitanism
1. Modernity's Edge: Speaking Silence on the Blaskets
2. Sean O'Faoláin and the End of Republican Realism
3. Unnaming the Subject: Samuel Beckett and Postcolonial Absence
4. Postmodern Blaguardry: Frank McCourt, the Celtic Tiger, and the Ashes of History
Conclusion. Dispatches from the Modernist Frontier: "European and Asiatic papers please copy"
Notes
Works Cited
Index
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Rerouting Irish Modernism: Postcolonial Aesthetics and the Imperative of Cosmopolitanism
1. Modernity's Edge: Speaking Silence on the Blaskets
2. Sean O'Faoláin and the End of Republican Realism
3. Unnaming the Subject: Samuel Beckett and Postcolonial Absence
4. Postmodern Blaguardry: Frank McCourt, the Celtic Tiger, and the Ashes of History
Conclusion. Dispatches from the Modernist Frontier: "European and Asiatic papers please copy"
Notes
Works Cited
Index